#and this angle was impossible

[robo-dino-puppy]

nora huntress

hfw face(paint)s 45/?

[very-tired-child]

checkmate.

based on ch 5 of Primum non Nocere by @aughtpunk!!

[corrodedbisexual]

The most adorable metalhead

[tatsumi-rin]

Anyone else thought about this?

With the popularity of Mouthwashing as a game, I've seen people who talk about it talk about the mouthwash itself as a metaphor for Jimmy (and they're definitely correct in their read imo), but dear god NO ONE is talking about it as a potential metaphor for Pony Express itself as a company.

This is an item considered to be an essential. It is a dental hygiene product dentists would generally recommend you have. 99.9% of bacteria gone - but this one is loaded with sugar. Using this is going to be detrimental to its own cause and probably worse than using no mouthwash at all.

Pony Express? No matter your start, it seems like a good, stable job and a promising future. People will always need goods transported to other planets. It even has a cute mascot representing pride in their work that they sell toys of to kids!

Butttttt, the caveats. Oh boy, the caveats. All of those cute images are done to soften the blow of little red pieces of text about how doing things to the point of basically existing means your credits are going to get docked - something that's just as much Aperture Science-esque dark humor as horrible foreshadowing. Late delivery? Docked. Resting in any manner for more than five hours? Docked. Using medical support in any manner? Docked. REPORTING ISSUES TO HR??? MOTHER. FUCKING. DOCKED.

And trying to avoid any of those dockings; those detriments? Pretty much impossible, and that would spell doom for anyone: including members of a certain ship. With every one of those rules, if they survived that payout would be hilariously low. The usual rules; made by out of touch people in fancy suits.

The members of the Tulpar all (mostly) had reasons to be there, even at radically different life stages. Reasons why they needed the work, and reasons why it should fulfill those reasons and enrich their lives.

It was meant to be Jimmy's ticket away from struggling on earth. It was meant to be Daisuke gaining direction in life. It was meant to be Anya finally getting into medical school. It was meant to be Swansea gaining a stable and fulfilling life as he made it into sobriety, and it was meant to be Curly making it further up into his career path with glowing words of praise.

As per capitalism's usual spiel that we were even shown in the game itself via public domain cartoon, taking this job was meant to be joyous opportunity and innovation for their lives; but with so many flaws in the system around them around them - including the words on those posters - just trying to find benefit in the system they needed in order to survive was nothing more than fatal poison. The dead pixel, the sugar, and the 0.1% all working together.

[polterquest]

the kiss of life (1967) but its ... spies

[atane-is-here]

@tolkienhorrorweek

Angband & Utumno

In the elder days Melkor had ordered for another fortress to be built. West of Utumno and closer to the Valar. And deep into the mountain Sauron had built his city of madness. In Angband he was lord and by his side was the lady of secret shadow.

[nanihirunkits]

You are attractive, no matter what you wear.

MY LOVE MIX-UP | EP6

[jojo-oliver]

[ID in alt text] 12/15 of my LGBTQIA+ boots series!

gay (mlm) flag themed💙

I'll be posting 1+ per week until the 1st of pride month 🏳️‍🌈 and then I'll post all of them!

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stickers or prints of this series here

[therealamperssand]

figure skating!!! alinua and kendal are from @comicaurora

[pagerunner-j]

Decided on a whim to rewatch The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit, since those episodes seem rather more relevant after all those dire intonations about Sutekh this past week, not to mention a certain recurring voice actor, and...

...yeah, I forgot that this is how it starts.

editing to add:

I just pulled up the commentary track for The Impossible Planet, and lo and behold, here's David Tennant pointing out that the Beast here is voiced by Gabriel Woolf, who voiced Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars, and--I quote--"So there's a sort of link there. And if you want to believe it's the same character, then that's...you're free to do that."

I will indeed be taking that as carte blanche for the time being, thank you.

Guess we'll see how things play out next week. :)

(And another comment re: that particular bit of casting: "I suspect if you're listening to this DVD commentary, then you already knew that." Yeah, well, funny thing about that, David...)

[mjulmjul]

[ckret2]

i know that you prefer Billford, but lately I’ve been wondering what your thoughts on Fiddauthor are?

It's a perfectly respectable ship with a strong canon basis, but it doesn't really do anything for me. Couldn't tell you why, usually I love ships with morally dubious mad scientists/inventors and that ship has two of them. By all accounts it makes no sense. But it just doesn't set my heart on fire.

Maybe because most content I've seen for it is post-show soft wholesome fluff and that doesn't do anything for me? The versions of Ford+Fiddleford I usually see get reinvented for fiddauthor drains out everything I find interesting in their characters and I have a hard time thinking up a compelling version of the ship that doesn't do that.

Or maybe it's because I am into billford and I don't wanna subject the poor humans to a love triangle lmfao; plus it's a whole lot funnier to headcanon that Bill thinks there's a love triangle when actually there's nothing going on and the other two are oblivious to what he thinks.

Although TBOB's just about got me convinced that Fiddleford had an enormous dumb crush that Ford somehow never noticed. Like, you don't painstakingly make a pair of custom gloves and an intricately detailed snow globe for your bestie who doesn't even celebrate Christmas and then go home and forget to get your wife & kid gifts unless something's going on. And a one-sided crush retroactively makes the infamous "it's good to be doing this with a FRIEND" in J3 hilarious.

But "I think there's a high probability something mighta been happening there" is different from being personally interested in exploring it.

[elennemigo]

Benedict congratulates his friend Matt Haig for the publication of his last novel. 📚

[catocappuccino]

U zee being cool and allat... like she always is

+ two random doodles

[eeblouissant]

I can’t be bothered to finish these properly so here you go :’)

[front-facing-pokemon]